Not since the Marquis de Sade, has a writer been so brazen in discussion of sex, politics, religion, and dark perversions.The difference between the Marquis de Sade and Marquessa De Sade is that literary efforts of the marquis were, for the most part, figments of his imagination: pure, some would say impure, fiction.Marquessa De Sade speaks from personal experience. Her words reflect reality.